cameron and green making-sense-of-change-management

The underpinning theorySTOP AND THINK!Q 2.5Q 2.6Using the five elements above, what is your current teameffectiveness?What needs to change, and how would you go about it?WHAT TEAM CHANGE LOOKS LIKEAll teams go through a change process when they are first formed, andwhen significant events occur such as a new member arriving, a keymember leaving, a change of scope, increased pressure from outside, or achange in organizational climate.Tuckman (1965) is one of the most widely quoted of researchers into thelinear model of team development. His work is regularly used in teambuilding within organizations. Most people will have heard of it as the‘forming, storming, norming, performing’ model of team development. Hisbasic premise is that any team will undergo distinct stages of developmentas it works or struggles towards effective team functioning. Although wewill describe Tuckman’s model in some detail, we have selected a range ofmodels to illustrate the team development process, as indicated in Table 2.4.Tuckman’s model of team changeFormingForming is the first stage. This involvesthe team asking a set of fundamentalquestions:• What is our primary purpose?• How do we structure ourselves as a team to achieve our purpose?• What roles do we each have?• Who is the leader?• How will we work together?• How will we relate together?• What are the boundaries of the team?78